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How Would You Call People Who Live In Unova?

What do you like better?

  • Unovan

    Votes: 46 43.0%
  • Unovian

    Votes: 56 52.3%
  • Something else (please post)

    Votes: 5 4.7%

  • Total voters
    107

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How would you rather call the people who live in Unova? I like calling it Unovian. It just sounds cool.

Please vote in the poll.
 
Right now, I guess I stand alone on "unovan". But to me, it sounds more natural
 
Unovian. It rolls off my tongue smoothly, and all-around seems more natural.
 
Unovan, mostly because of the stress on the "U" rather than on the "o".
 
Unovan - because there isn't an "ia" at the end of Unova :-D Like Moldova, the people who live there are Moldovan, not Moldovian.
 
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People of townsville

I called the people of Unova, Spoons. I have an infatuation of calling normal people from the old games, Forks.
So if there was a region based on Europe, they would be Knives.
I'm not even lying.

If I was doing an LP, I'd say "move Spoon!"

To be serious, if I had to make them actually make sense, then they'd be the United People of the Liberty region.
 
Unovan, as that's what the demonym should be phonetically and grammatically.
 
Unovans. It sounds good and it's better than Unovians if you ask me.
 
Unovian. I just figured it was official and took a liking to it.
 
To me, Unovian sounds more like a language than a nationality.
 
America - American
Andorra - Andorran
Angola - Angolan
Bermuda - Bermudan
Botswana - Botswanan
Cuba - Cuban
Dominica - Dominican
Kenya - Kenyan
Jamaica - Jamaican

And it goes on. The only exceptions to the rule I can think of are Canada, China, Argentina and Ghana and only one of those support the -ian ending (Ghanaian, Chinese and Argentine do not follow that form). Obviously all the countries whos name already ends in -ia can't be counted in this comparison. Most nations ending in -a simply suffix -n. Canada's a weird anomaly.

Oh, there's Panamanain's (and the Maltese) too, but still, I feel my point stands.
 
I'd call them by name, because I don't like to label groups of people.
Yeah, you all feel mighty bad about yourselves now, don't you? xD

But seriously...Unovan, because it rolls off the tongue better.
 
Unovan. It makes the most sense. That extra "i" in "Unovian" doesn't seem like it should be there.
 
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